Obama officials on Tuesday announced that the first civilian-military hybrid prison in America will soon be stocked with detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba's terror prison camp. Half of the roughly 200 still in Gitmo could wind up there.

Washington Republicans denounced the plan, with House GOP Leader John Boehner of Ohio charging the Obama White House "must've forgotten" about Americans killed on Sept. 11.

But local officials pushed hard to get the Gitmo thugs, smelling jobs, and the tiny Mississippi River town all but busted out the welcome wagon.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons will buy it from the state to house some of its inmates, but the military will run a separate facility inside Thomson to jail Gitmo thugs ticketed for military commission trials, Obama aides said.

Some "untriable" terrorists will be held in Thomson indefinitely if the administration succeeds in changing U.S. law to allow it, officials said.

The transfer of the detainees could go as much as six months beyond Obama's self-imposed Jan. 21, 2010, deadline to close Gitmo, a source in the administration conceded.